Kitchens
The Culture of Restaurant Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11083483 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sharon Zukin (0009-0001-6476-1779, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 219 |
| Publication date | 1997-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work, Gary Alan Fine, 2008 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2076795 |
| OpenAlex | W2104048175 |
| Language | EN |
Kitchens takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant. In this rich, often surprising portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, Gary Alan Fine brings their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to colourful life. He provides a riveting exploration of how restaurants actually work, both in-dividually and as part of a larger culinary culture. Working conditions, time constraints, market forces, and aesthetic goals all figure into the food served to customers - who often don't know quite what they're getting. The kitchen is a place of constant compromise, of quirks, approximations, dirty tricks, surprises, and short cuts, as Fine demonstrates in his deft, readable narrative. He brings to life the complicated relationships among kitchen workers - servers, dishwashers, pantry workers, managers, restaurant critics, and customers - and reveals the effects of organisational structure on individual relations
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